👉 Block 811118: Weekly Digest
Important news of the week without the bullshit.
News
- CEO of Nchain Group Quits, Admits That Craig Wright is a Fraud
- How Bitcoin Blockchain Is Fighting Fraud in Guatemala’s Presidential Elections
- ZBD x PlebLab TabConf Hackathon Projects & Panels Released
- X (Twitter) Now Collects More Data Than Ever, Including Biometrics
- Apple Bows to China, Starts Enforcing App Store Regulations in the Country
- US Government Argues That Disclosure of Chainalysis Heuristics Would ‘Jeopardize Law Enforcement Investigations’
- Volcano Energy Partners with Luxor to Launch First El Salvador’s Mining Pool
- The Bank Runs Continue: Metro Bank Reportedly Trying to Raise £600 Million
- Pacific Bitcoin 2023 Livestream - Day 1
- Uzbekistan Issues Ban on Individual Bitcoin Mining Operations
- Pacific Bitcoin 2023 - Day 2 Livestream
- European Commission Initiates €800k Study on How to Best Address ‘Bitcoin’s Environmental Impact’
Updates and releases
- Phoenix Wallet v2.0 Upgrade Now Being Deployed to iOS Users, Android v2.0.9 Released
- PlebAI: Access Open Source Large Language Models For Sats
- Nostur v1.7.0: Performance Improvements
- Obscura VPN Announced: Privacy-by-Design
- Primal Android v0.16.9, iOS v0.30.4 Released
- GrapheneOS v2023100100 Released
- Exit.pub v0.3.0: Reliability Improvements, Satellite CDN Support, Service Relay & More
- Citadel v0.2.6 and v0.2.7 Released: Bug Fixes and Updates
- River Lightning Launched LNURL Payments and Lightning Vouchers
- Listr v2.0 Beta: UX Improvements, New List Types
- Peach Bitcoin App v0.3.1 and Public API Released
- Blockstream Jade v1.0.23: Saving Multisig Wallet Configurations
- Mutiny Wallet v0.4.20: Blazing Fast Payments, Easier Self-Hosting
- Bitcoin Core Merged BIP-324 and AssumeUTXO Proposals
- LND v0.17.0 Beta: Simple Taproot Channels
- LDK v0.0.117: Improved Payment Success Rates, Bug Fixes & More
- Nostr Playground: Experiment with Nostr’s Multifaceted Features
- Boltz Web App v1.1.0: UX Improvements
- Unchained Introduced Its Enterprise Collaborative Custody Network
- Mutiny Wallet v0.4.21: Introducing Gifts
- Theya Multisig Wallet Is Now In Public Beta
- Parmanode v3.7.5, ParmanodL v2.0 and ParmaZero Released
- Zeus v0.8.0-alpha49 with Simple Taproot Channels Rolled Out to Alpha Testers
- LNbits v0.11.0: Node Management UI for Core Lightning & LND
- Stacker.News Added Nostr Crossposting, Quote Replies & More
- Swan Partners with Blockstream to Launch Swan Vault
- Memestr: Nostr Hub for Memes
- BDK v0.29.0: Maintenance Release
- ESP Miner Firmware v2.0.0 for Bitaxe Max and Bitaxe Ultra Released
- Breez SDK Core v0.2.5: Zero Fee Anchor Channels Support
- Samourai Wallet v0.99.98i: Full PSBT Support, Post-send UI, Batch Spend JSON Import & More
- Smart Vaults for Testnet Available on iOS Testflight
- Amethyst v0.79.2: Performance Updates, Mute Words, Immersive Scrolling
- Strike Private Announced: Strike’s White-glove Service
- Shopstr: Decentralized Classifieds Marketplace Using Lightning & Cashu
- Lightning Terminal v0.11.0-alpha Released
- RoninDojo v2.1.0: Handling IP Changes